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Mule Design Walkthrough
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Mule Design Walkthrough

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Shows how to make a Mule. A compact mining vessel that is fairly cheep in survival and very effective. because it is so short it can maneuver in its own kurf. You can copy this in any of your worlds as long as you make sure to leave "Mule" in the beacon title. Start with a new small ship. Don't forget the components on the front in step 2.

This Mule uses heavy armor for added stability while drills are active. 2 Forward Lights and a reverse light. I usually put supplies for thrusters and emergency repairs in one of the 2 cargo containers, for those accidental dings. It is very compact and uses 4 gyros so you really can adjust your mining path precisely while you are drilling a surface.

The Mule does finally have conveyors and connectors on it. To offload ores just face down towards your collection bay and set connectors to open.

If your materials are running low you can build this ship without,
-Half of the thrusters on the back
-Conveyors on the front
-Connectors on the front
-Lights(although I recommend at least 1 for reverse, because thats the most common fault for a collision)
-Half the drills(If you are desperate)

Blue print version at https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=321442615
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Copper Boltwire 25 Apr, 2015 @ 12:27pm 
Can't open it, can't you make like a series of screenshots from both front and back???
should bea easier then this... ANd is universal and won't give issues and will always be up to date with the ga... more or less ;)
THE kilroy  [author] 5 Nov, 2014 @ 8:51pm 
This is the demo scene, from before blueprints. The blueprint is at https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=321442615
Chaoskid 5 Nov, 2014 @ 7:20pm 
the blue print not showing up so i can use it
Sleepy 10 Oct, 2014 @ 1:51pm 
Thanks for this. I tried Mule and I am impressed. I just slightly updated it to suit my needs (conveyors) and I think that for me personally it´s long time winner :)
THE kilroy  [author] 2 Oct, 2014 @ 9:22pm 
Uploaded a blueprint version to https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=321442615
Camble 30 Sep, 2014 @ 3:43am 
I like the compact design of this and the thruster layout is quite clever.
Taktron 6 Aug, 2014 @ 7:07am 
If you do go more expensive in conveyors and storage, you can have a lot of small storage containers using up the light armor block spaces between the cockpit and the outer hull.
THE kilroy  [author] 6 Aug, 2014 @ 12:51am 
It would be nice to have collectors on the front but they are the size of the drills. the ejectors are on the front so that you can empty your drills without building elaborate conveyors(easier and cheeper and faster)
Quevin 6 Aug, 2014 @ 12:03am 
Shound't the ejectors be collectors? except for that it is a really stable design altough I would replace the ore detector for a medium cargo container.
Taktron 5 Jun, 2014 @ 9:58am 
Here's a version I created and posted. Let me know what you think. It's posted under IFC Miner. Add me as a friend and I'll be sure to actually add a link to you as a contributor instead of just a mention in the post.